By this metric, the tomato has become a quintessential Indian vegetable since the Portuguese brought it over in the 16th century. The number of recipes for tomato chutney is immense. Here, though, is one that draws from Bengali cuisine. Garlic and chili Pulverised Spice seeds In oil Frying ...
This word became the ancestor of a number of words used all over India: Hindi: baingan Kannada: badne kai (‘kai’ = vegetable) Telugu: vankaya Bengali: begun Marathi: vangi Sindhi: vangan Interesting. I love eggplant, but I’ve never thought of it as a substitute for Gas-X. Perhaps...
One of the reasons the word ‘curry’ has become such a fixture is that weirdly, there are a number of words all over the subcontinent that vaguely sound like ‘curry’. This makes people nod happily at the word, thinking it is an Anglicization of the one that is most familiar in the...